Featured Publications
Kazakhstan and the United States: Twenty Years of Ambiguous Partnership
The Five Futures of Cyber Conflict and Cooperation
US Lessons for the Eurozone Restoring Confidence through Transparency
Prospects and Challenges for Increasing India-Pakistan Trade
A US-EU Action Plan for Supporting Democratization: Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia
Council News
Jonathan Paris Discusses Syrian Crisis with France 24
Jonathan Paris, nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, appeared on France 24 to discuss Russia's support for the Assad regime and what it means for a possible UN resolution against Syria.
Damon Wilson US Senate Testimony: Ukraine at a Crossroads
On February 1, Atlantic Council executive vice president Damon Wilson testified at a hearing of the US Senate Committe on Foreign Relations on the topic: "Ukraine at a Crossroads: What's at Stake for the US and Europe?"
Michele Dunne on US-Egypt Relations for NPR's Morning Edition
Relations between the US and Egypt have taken a downturn since Egyptian authorities raided the offices of seventeen nongovernmental organizations in December - three of them US-funded. Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, spoke on NPR's Morning Edition about the situation and what it means for US aid to Egypt.
FEATURED ISSUE
The South Asia Center receives guidance and support from many experts throughout the world. Our senior fellows, guest-speakers, Center patrons, and visitors contribute heavily to the Center’s mission to “wage peace,” and engage the international community in the region. The Center asked our contributors the simple, but key question, “What you do expect in 2012?”
REGISTER
Spain
Panetta: 'Our military footprint in Europe will remain larger than in any other region in the world'
Jorge Benitez | February 06, 2012
From Leon Panetta, U.S. Department of Defense: For Europe, the U.S. defense strategy reaffirms the lasting strategic importance of the transatlantic partnership with the United States.
Coalition leaders respond to Sarkozy's new timetable for Afghanistan
Jorge Benitez | January 29, 2012
From the AP: In a gentle rebuke to France, British Prime Minister David Cameron said in London on Saturday that withdrawals should be dependent on security conditions on the ground.
Europe's first experimental stealth combat drone is rolled out
Jorge Benitez | January 20, 2012
From David Cenciotti, the Aviationist: On Jan. 20, the nEUROn, the technology demonstrator for a European UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle), was officially presented by Charles Edelstenne, Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation
Defense and Foreign Ministers chosen for Spain's new Cabinet
Jorge Benitez | December 21, 2011
From the AP: Spain’s new conservative prime minister was sworn in Wednesday and he later appointed his Cabinet, including ministers charged with lifting the country out of its severe economic crisis.
Spain's view of NATO and "military missions abroad" according to its official Security Strategy
Jorge Benitez | December 01, 2011
From the Office of the Prime Minister of Spain : Ensuring the security of Spain, its inhabitants and its citizens is an essential responsibility of the Government and the Public Administrations, but also of society as a whole. Security today is everyone´s responsibility.
Russia's Red Alert
Jorge Benitez | November 26, 2011
From James Joyner, the New Atlanticist: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced today that he would "immediately put the missile attack early warning radar station in Kaliningrad on combat alert" and take other aggressive steps to counter NATO's missile defense system.
Medvedev orders military to prepare "measures for disabling" NATO missile defense system
Jorge Benitez | November 23, 2011
From Dmitry Medvedev, Office of the President of Russia: Our only goal was to preserve the basic principle that Europe does not need new dividing lines, but rather, a common security perimeter with Russia’s equal and legally enshrined participation.
U.S. joining NATO's fight against cyber threats
Jorge Benitez | November 16, 2011
From John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes: The United States will join the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence during a formal ceremony scheduled for Thursday at the center’s headquarters in Estonia, a country that experienced a massive cyber attack that disabled websites of numerous government institutions in 2007.
FEATURED EVENTS
The Way Forward in Europe
On February 13, the Atlantic Council's Global Business and Economics Program will host Luc Frieden, finance minister of Luxembourg, and an influential member of the European Union’s Eurogroup and Economic and Financial Affairs Council.
Libya Revisited: Coalition Building and the Future of NATO Operations
Please join the Atlantic Council for a public address and conversation with General Charles Bouchard, commander of the NATO military mission in Libya.
Pivotal Partnerships: The Prospects for International Defense Cooperation in an Age of Austerity
On Wednesday, February 15, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter will join the Atlantic Council for a public address and conversation on international defense cooperation.
Counter-Piracy Task Force: Strategic Approaches to the Piracy Challenge
On February 8, 2012, the International Security Program and the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a meeting of the Atlantic Council Maritime Piracy Task Force, chaired by Atlantic Council Board Director Franklin D. Miller. This is the third in a series of meetings looking into the challenge of piracy and possible strategic approaches.
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FEATURED INTERVIEW
Is Nigeria at a Crossroad?
In this edition of the New Atlanticist Podcast, Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri speaks to Mr. Tutu Agyare, founder and managing partner of Nubuke Investments, one of Africas’s largest asset managers.
